Luis Leon Sanchez wrote:
My only concern with Barrio is that he may be given leadership which wouldn't be ideal for you. The rest of your team looks to be shaping up nicely tho!

The 30 years-old Czech rider is the first true Stage Racer that joins the team for this coming season. We arrived at our team following a deal that involved 2017 CT Individual Ranking winner Rafael Valls and Festina - Dexia team, something that wasn't the ideal situation, but had to be done in order to have as much wage cap space as possible for getting our targets.



Jakub has a skill set that we value a lot in Repsol, being able to combine both mountains and tt abilities, and not being shabby in hills. He should lead the team in some stage racer which involves mountain/hills and long TT's, hoping he can give us consistent GC results to complement his labour of supporting our climbing leader in other races.

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The Canadian puncheur comes from PT team RBC looking for oportunities to shine by himself. Surely an spectacular rider that can accelerate fast and depending on circustances, could become in a dark horse for some nice results during the season. We are surely going to try to find him some chances to do that. Also his TT isn't terrible, so he might be of some use in hilly stage races with a TT, though he wouldn't be a contender by any means.

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It's being long due, but we finally signed our hilly leader for the 2018 season, the 26 years-old Norwegian, who comes in transfers from Volvo. He's not yet there to really fight for the wins in PCT level, but we've made moves to give him a great supporting cast and with his great acceleration, he should be up for great results. Someone to keep around for many years given his youthness

He already has some decent wins in his back, like 2 stage wins in WT races and other two wins in PCT level in 2016. We hope that he add to that count at least one in 2018 thanks to his attacking spirit

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For the first time in the history of our team, we have signed a rider with 80+ in his main stat, and the 30 year-old Belgian cobbler is due to lead our team in all the cobbled races that we get to ride in 2018. We are aware of the super strong competition that has arrived in PCT this year for the cobbles, but we have confidence in Sep, and that he should be consistently in Top10's and fighting for regular podium and Top5, and why not, get what would be his first ever pro win.

Also, his great flat abilities could make him use his remaining RD's after cobbles on flat races where he could get some points in classics or helping a sprinter to leadout him

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Finally we were able to snatch a decent rider through FA after several unsuccesfull bidding wars, and we got a 24 years-old climber from Rwanda, who unless there's a radical change in the market, should be the third best U25 climber in PCT for this season, which means U25 points for him on top of his own GC performances.

He should be a solid domestique for a better climber, in both mountains and hills, as he might lack backups to get the oportunity to lead a team, but he could get the odd chance to lead depending on his leader's calendar

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Aquarius97 wrote:
@Dev4ever Yeah, it's being a very tough days trying to create a competitive team almost from scratch, and a lot of FA fights, so i'm ending with a team that neither of the big signings were actual objetives before transfers

We signed this French of 30 years with the intention of giving Sep Vanmarcke a top domestique for this season in a cheap price. Fabien comes from fellow PCT team Generali after doing domestique duties for Teunissen there. We expect from him that he lasts as long as possible in the favourite's group supporting Sep, and then go and take some depth points

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We have signed this French rider of 33 years as a part of Bystrom's hilly train. He's not in his prime anymore, but we feel like he still has some quality to offer, not anymore as a leader, but as a luxury domestique in pure hilly races or using his decent climbing abilities to help in mixed MON/HIL races. We are looking forward to Guillaume riding for us

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Repsol - Netflix management is so glad to present the first big talent that the team has ever signed, the young Irish rider Eddie Dunbar! Being 22 and a Pot6 rider, he was signed for a 150k wage and depending on how he develop, he could become the future leading puncheur of the team, or become in a great stage racer, but his development posibilities will be treated in other post later on.

We can't wait to see him in full potential in 3 years, but in the meantime he could already be a decent rider for the team, as given his decent TT abilities, he could become a part of the team in races that includes a TTT, while also wanting him to give a shot at breakaways. We feel like his stats are perfect for PCT breakaways, but will see if Eddie can do that, or if he'll stay as a pure domestique for this season

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For the first time in the team's history, we are signing an sprinter which can actually compete for some wins. Jurgen Roelandts is one of the rider with most wins in MG history, having won 29 times in his career, including 8 stage wins in Vuelta a España.

His ability to go over hills makes him a valuable asset for not pan-flat races, and could see him scoring much better than other 80/81 sprinters in PCT. He will be the lone wolf of the team in the sprinting field, as there's no other 71+ sprinter in the team, so he'll need to usurp other rider's train to get good results. He's already 33, so probably this is the last year he can challenge for wins in PCT level, and he has stated his will to take a win after 2017 being the first year since he got his first pro win that he didn't win anything

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